Fertilizer-distributer.



No. 699,247. Patented May 6, 1902 C. H. SANFORD. FERTILIZER DISTBIBUTER.

(Application filed. Oct. 24, 1901. (No Model.)

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CHARLES H. SANFORD, OF DADEVILLE, ALABAMA.

FERTILIZ ER-DISTRIBUTER.

srncrrrcarrxon forming part of Letters Patent No. 99,247, dated May 6, 1902.

Application filed October 24 1901. Serial 115. 79858. (No model.)

The invention relates to fertilizer-distributers.

The object of the invention is to provide a machine of this character which shall be simple of construction, durable'in use, comparatively inexpensive of production, eflicient in operation, capable of adjustment for regulating the amount of discharge of the fertilizing materiahand easily attached to thestock of a plow or other tilling implement.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the appended claim. v

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation showing the invention atrear side of the hopper by a spring 9.

tached to an ordinary plow-stock. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view through the hopper and vibrating shoe, showing in full lines one adjustment of the shoe and in dotted lines another adjustment of the shoe; and Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the shoe.

Referring to the drawings, 1 denotes a plowstock, and 2 a hopper, secured thereto in any suitable manner. The forward wall of the hopper may be provided at its lower end with a discharge-opening 3. 4; denotes a vibrating shoe, which is provided with side pieces 5, a rear end piece 6, andhas a trough-shaped bottom Z. This shoe is hung near its forward end by pivoted links 8 to the sides of the hop-' per and is connected at its rear end to the This spring has its lower end preferably pivoted to a staple 10, secured in the rear end of the shoe, and has its upper end vertically and ad- .justably connected to the side of the hopper, preferably by forming the spring with a slot 11, through which extends a set-screw 12. As shown in full lines in Fig. 2 the shoe is so adjusted as to discharge but its minimum amount of fertilizing material and as shown in dotted lines it is adjusted to discharge its maximum amount of fertilizing material. In

either adjustment the spring is held securely by'the set-screw.

13 denotes an arm secured to the side of the 'hopper and curved under the shoe and provided with a tappet device, which consists of a disk 14, provided with pins 15, which are adapted to strike an inclined lug 16, secured to the under side of the shoe in the path' of movement of said pinsand force said lug for wardly. The instant the pin moves from contact with said lug the spring suddenly re tracts the shoe rearwardly, and thus discharges the fertilizing material. It will thus be observed that the spring performs two functionsto wit, first, thatof returning the shoe to its normal position, which act with draws the shoe'from under the fertilizing ma:

terial, which has been moved from under the I hopper by the pin engaging the inclinedliig and allows the fertilizing material to fallto the ground, and, secondly, it serves as a parting from the spirit'or sacrificing any of the advantages thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patout is- I Ii a fertilizer-distributer, the combination with the hopper, a shoe having a lug formed integral therewith, links pivoted to said hop- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set per and said shoe, a tappet device for engagmy hand in presence of two subscribing witing the lug and moving the shoe in one direcnesses.

tion, and a spring for supporting one end of CHAS. II. SANFORD. 5 the shoe for returning it to its normal posi- Witnesses:

tion after having been moved by the tappet J. PERRY OLIVER,

device, substantially as set forth. WM. 0. ROECK. 

